Today in class we continued our conversations about the early territorial period in Arkansas and we took a few notes…shocker. In an effort to switch up our normal routine of taking notes we changed up our style just a bit. Today we used a Kagan learning strategy called expert groups. Their guided reading notes were divided up into four sections and students were numbered off and placed into one of four groups. Once in their groups they would then be given a section of the notes to work on and become “experts” on that specific section.

Upon finishing the work with their expert groups, students were then placed into heterogeneous groups and asked to teach their newly found information to everyone else in the group. The idea is that students become an expert in one section then have to use listening skills to learn the sections that they do not have.

Mr. McClung